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Adrenaline Ride

Mad Mask

Nagano / ARAI Katsuya

Japan202573min International Premiere

Program Note

A bartender, a serial killer who skins his face and wears it like a mask after killing a guest. One day, he runs into a suspicious man drinking alone at a bar. After killing him and wearing his face like a mask, the bartender soon becomes engulfed in a nightmare fantasy. In the fantasy, he encounters himself, who is much more cruel and bizarre than usual, and finds out that the man is a much crazier man than he is. His face clings to his skin of a bartender, and his madness is at its peak. To enjoy this film, you must abandon logic and probability in order to enjoy this work. This unfamiliar and bizarre story from start to finish slowly penetrates the viewer's mind as if a man's skin were sticking to a bartender's face. The crazy charm of this work, which unhinged charm impossible to define of joyfully unraveling with a free soul while rejecting a hard frame,  the natural acting of singer and actor Kaneko Nobuaki and Aina The End, and special appearances of Saito Takumi, cannot be defined in one word. you can only surrender and let yourself sink. (Martin LEE)

Diretor

Nagano

ARAI Katsuya

Credit

Producer
Nagano, ARAI Katsuya, NAKAMURA Ayumu
Screenplay
Nagano, ARAI Katsuya
Author of the Original Work
Nagano
Cinematographer
YOSHIZAWA Kazuaki
Editor
ARAI Katsuya
Sound
TAN Yuji
Music
KANEKO Nobuaki, YOW-ROW
Cast
Nagano, KANEKO Nobuaki, Aina the End
Sales
GRAPE COMPANY